Second Key Aide To Leave Federal Drug Policy Unit

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - WASHINGTON

October 20, 1991

A key deputy director has resigned from the national drug policy agency, the second departure in recent days, Director Bob Martinez announced. Martinez said Friday that Stanley Morris would resign as deputy director in charge of efforts to reduce the supply of illegal drugs, effective Nov. 1. Earlier last week, Martinez announced the resignation of his deputy director in charge of efforts to reduce the demand for illicit drugs, former Yale University Professor Herbert Kleber. The departing officials were brought into the agency by William Bennett, the former director, when it was established in 1989. Reasons for their leaving were not given. Kleber plans to become a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Morris, who headed the U.S. Marshal's Service before joining the Office of National Drug Control Policy, plans to remain in the government, according to a statement from Martinez.